This puts a smile on my face. I just love when Trump voters get directly hurt by him.

HOLLAND, Mich. — “Plants in every direction shut down and moved their operations to Mexico, succumbing to the relentless pressure to cut costs in an age of globalization. Not EBW Electronics. As the decades passed, the family-owned business stayed put, on the eastern edge of Lake Michigan, churning out lights for the auto industry.

But now, the company’s management is reluctantly mulling the possibility of moving its production to Mexico to escape the tariffs that President Trump has put on imported components, his primary weapons in a trade war waged in the name of bringing jobs home to America.

“It’s killing us,” said the chairman of the company, Pat LeBlanc, 63, a Republican who voted for Mr. Trump. He now expects the president’s tariffs will chop his 2019 profits in half. “I just feel so betrayed. If we fail because the company is being harmed by the government, that just makes me sick.”

That’s what concerns me. I have many investments that I’ve just let ride. I’ve been on the fence for a while.

Trump is making it really hard for me to use the patterns I’m accustomed to.

Some people like the good ole days and have trouble with anything new.

That post actually has a lot of truth to it with respect to day traders, swing traders, and short and long term investors.

We have all gotten use to reading company financials, annual reports, earnings, product announcements and the market itself. We’re doing the same things and president trump will get a Twitter feud with someone and our investments won’t act the way they normally (thus potentially costing us $$).

Now, people who live paycheck to paycheck or aren’t actively managing their investments or who just pray that in 40 years their 401K will be enough to retire on probably don’t understand that. And the ones that do pray, ironically, do hope the market acts like it always has.

Despite good crops, high farmland values, WI led way in bankruptcy filings.

Nationally, median farm income is estimated at a negative $1,548—which means that a majority of farms in all size categories lost money last year.
Paul Mitchell, an ag economist at the UW-Madison and director of the Renk Agribusiness Institute, which sponsors the annual outlook forum, commented that in 2017, farm income had bumped up, but by 2018, overall it had dropped 8 to 10 percent. Income for beef producers was down 1.4 percent while for dairy producers it dropped 7.1 percent.

US farmers being cut out of Japan after TPP withdrawal

US farm groups are ramping up pressure on Donald Trump to quickly launch trade talks with Tokyo, as they face mounting evidence of lost sales and market share in Japan following America’s withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

In recent weeks, wheat, pork and beef producers in the US have complained that they are being rapidly outflanked and replaced in the lucrative Japanese market by rivals including Canada, Australia, and EU member states, whose trade deals with Japan entered into force in recent months.

Farm belt politicians, including from Mr Trump’s own Republican party, are increasingly restless about the latest trends in trade with Japan, which has added to the angst among farmers and ranchers about the president’s protectionist trade policies. Farmers and ranchers have already suffered heavily because of retaliatory tariffs imposed by China on their products.